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Innovative Teaching: How on Earth Do We Get Started?
Years ago as a beginning teacher, I asked one of my University of Chicago professors how it was that my mentoring teacher seemed to do everything at once — teaching one group, keeping an eye on other...
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Constructing Modern Knowledge: Sometimes Out of My Comfort Zone
Occasionally we educators (and parents, too) participate in a learning experience that requires us to struggle for understanding and work hard to figure out what’s happening. Young learners go through...
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Teaching Kids to Search Well and Evaluate What They Find
My post, Back-to-School Research Tip: Help Your Child Use Curated Online Databases, is posted over at the Platform for Good website. It describes strategies that parents and educators can use to help...
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Hour of Code Reflections: What a Difference a Few Words Make!
What if we encouraged young learners, when they encounter a difficult learning task, to replace the words “I don’t get it” with “I haven’t figured out the problem yet”? Can changing just a few small...
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Social Media Week? What a Great Idea for Schools!
Just imagine what we could teach our 21st Century students and ourselves if, together with students, we organized social media weeks (or days) with presentations, demonstrations, and talks about all...
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Google Dashboard: A Connected-World Teaching Tool for All Ages
If you use Google, take a few minutes to check out the Google Dashboard and look over a detailed digital footprint snapshot of your Google activities. Learning about digital footprints is an important...
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Building Habits of Evaluation into the Conversation & the Curriculum
A few days ago at the public library I overheard two teachers talking excitedly about a curriculum unit that they were developing. As the discussion progressed, they also began noting their frustration...
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Teaching Kids to Code With Robots: Great New Yorker Article
Check out the May 16, 2016 New Yorker for the article A Whole New Ball Game: The Rolling Robot That Teaches Kids to Code. Author D.T. Max, describes how Ian Bernstein and Adam Wilson invented the...
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